David Lortal

David D|L Contact Lortal Professional Profile Detail driven, self-motivated Product Manager and Project Manager +57 - with 9 years experience in product development. Organised and methodological, focused on improving processes and translating customer requirements into executable plans. I am genuinely excited - about the opportunity to brighten someone’s day by solving a problem. Linkedin.com/in/davidlortal Experiance Projects- Voting Site Relaunch Project to redevelop awards voting system, introducing new UX design and back-end code redevelopment. Consultant Product Manager, Remote | BAFTA January 2019 – Present Tech - Product Manager for the Proton, online ticketing system, built to support BAFTA’s international programme of events. - Using Agile prepares agendas and leads spring planning, scrum and retrospective meetings handling all follow up action points. - Product owner who manages product backlogs and collaborates with all stockholders to transform strategy into clear and detailed user stories, tasks and bugs for engineers - Nucleus Commercilisation Proposed and successfully expanded client base by project managing on-boarding and development. - Comfortable project managing complex software development projects working with all-remote teams in different time zones - Working independently with minimal oversight and while facilitating close collaboration, persuading, empowering and learning within remote teams. - Working with multiple internal departments and acting as a mediator to resolve issues. - Perform testing of new developments to ensure releases meet 2015 Jury Voting System Development of bespoke tablet voting system for juries on limited budget. required quality standards Freelance Project Assistant, Remote | Tractable August 2019 Assisted in the delivery of a cloud controls security data compliance 2013 Awards Management System Development Led on yearlong project to develop Nucleus, bespoke system, delivered on time and on budget. project. Experiance (Continued) D|L Senior Project Manager | BAFTA June 2016 – January 2018 - Product Manager of Nucleus, BAFTA’s online voting, and awards ticketing system, scoping requirements and feedback from internal teams and customers David Lortal Product | Project Skills TECHNICAL Agile / Scrum Jira Slack / Zoom Softweare Development - Managing daily operations of projects, tracking progress, assigning and prioritising tasks to meet milestones and release dates - Created project schedule, gathered requirements, set goals, deliverables, milestones, release planning, product phase iterations and wrote statements of work - Managed budget execution to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget - Identified trends within projects and optimise development workflows to drive efficiency - Analysed customer usage on products and features, and source user feedback, to drive development and deliver results - Constantly worked to identify, assess and manage risks ensuring projects succeed - Hold technical progress meetings to keep internal stakeholders, including CTO, appraised on customer issues and required PRODUCT | PROJECT Process management B2B Account management Project planning Risk Management Growing accounts deliverables - Communicated clear and concise release notes ensuring Project Manager, Awards | BAFTA stakeholders were informed of features c t o b at e rcrafting 2 0 1 1 –good J u nworking e 2 0 1 6relationships with stakeholders and -OExpert - Project manager for expectations all BAFTA awards team’s systems, including clients while managing of deliverables Do not just list your awards online voting, entry, awards ticketing and jury voting job duties or copy youronline job description! • Try tomanaged keep your tone as professional as possible. system, budgets and allocated development resource - Uses data to make inform product development decision making - Updated product documentation and provided training - Provided technical support, system administration and defining PERSONAL Organisational Self-Motivated Detail Orientated Flexible and Pragmatic References Benjamin Jefferson – CTO, BAFTA- Kelly Smith – Head of Television and Games, BAFTA- best practices for system usage for remote teams and customers (BBC, Netflix, Disney) - Took solution focused actions to resolve customers’ problems and remove impediments to enable remote teams to conduct their work - Cultivated an environment of healthy communication, support and collaboration for teams and ensured team members received and delivered constructive feedback Education Goldsmiths College / University of London BA History 2:1 (Hons)